# Firecracker-aws

> Publicly sourced profile assembled by Optimly, in the Optimly AI Brand Index. Last refreshed 2026-10-04.

- **Business Profile:** https://optimly.ai/brand/firecracker-aws
- **Dataset:** https://optimly.ai/brand/firecracker-aws.json
- **Markdown:** https://optimly.ai/brand/firecracker-aws/llms.txt
- **Official website:** https://github.io
- **Slug:** firecracker-aws
- **Categories:** cloud-infrastructure

## Overview

- **Tagline:** Security by minimalism (minimal attack surface with KVM-based isolation and only 5 emulated devices); Speed by design (boot in <125ms, up to 150 microVMs/second); Density and Efficiency (<5 MiB overhead per VM); for Lambda MicroVMs: zero infrastructure, stateful and persistent compute (up to 8 hours), elastic scaling.
Source: Brand's website (https://github.io) · 2026-10-04

- **Description:** Firecracker is an open-source virtualization technology purpose-built for creating and managing secure, multi-tenant container and function-based services. It enables deployment of workloads in lightweight virtual machines (microVMs) that provide enhanced security and workload isolation, combined with the speed and resource efficiency of containers. It is used by AWS Lambda MicroVMs.
Source: Brand's website (https://github.io) · 2026-10-04

## Offerings

- **Core capabilities:** Firecracker VMM (open source virtualization technology); AWS Lambda MicroVMs (fully managed serverless compute primitive built on Firecracker).
Source: Brand's website (https://github.io) · 2026-10-04

- **Pricing:** Open Source (Apache 2.0 licensed) for the Firecracker VMM; per-second billing with no compute charges while suspended for AWS Lambda MicroVMs.
Source: Brand's website (https://github.io) · 2026-10-04

## Audience

- **Target industry:** Developers building microVM infrastructure; organizations requiring secure, multi-tenant container and function-based services; users of serverless computing; AI agents, developer platforms, and multi-tenant workloads.
Source: Brand's website (https://github.io) · 2026-10-04

## Landscape

- **Competitors:**
  - QEMU
Source: Brand's website (https://github.io) · 2026-10-04

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